A Look Inside Trump's 4-Point Plan For Curbing Drug Prices

By Tom Bulleit and Kirsten Mayer (May 17, 2018, 1:58 PM EDT) -- On May 11, President Donald Trump outlined his administration's four-point plan for curbing prescription drug prices. With rare exceptions, the plan does nothing that will have immediate or even short-term effects, and missing is any reference to the presidents' campaign suggestions of direct federal price negotiation with drugmakers. Instead, the president is calling on the executive branch and, where necessary, Congress, to (1) consider (the blueprint uses the phrase "U.S. Department of Health and Human Services may"), or (2) gather more information about, the merits of taking more modest future steps that he believes will:...

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